Archived Articles by David Mas Masumoto
Masumotos participate in a play!
August 11, 12, and 13, 2011. The Masumoto family took to the stage in a great new adventure (performance!) in the Cornerstone Theater Company's original production of "A Man Comes to Fowler". The community-based theater methodology drew from community stories, cast community members alongside professional theater artists, and opened conversations about Fowler and how to perform its stories.
The Fresno Bee ran a great article about it:Fresno Bee Article. And Mas Masumoto wrote a column about it too:Mas's Article
FROM AARP MAGAZINE 2008
"Juicy Fruit"
By David Mas Masumoto, July & August 2008
A summer spent bonding with my grandmother over peaches
I grew up on a small family farm south of Fresno, California. My grandmother,
an immigrant who arrived here from Japan, never learned English. As a child,
I knew only a few words of Japanese.
When I tell people that now, they say, “How sad that you never had a conversation.”
But we did speak—through the language of food. My grandmother and I bonded during
peach harvests ... read the complete article